About Me

Sunday, 3 July 2011

I`ve got the Baby Blues...

....only kidding.Lol. But I have been making baby cards.

WARNING! Very long post!!!

As it`s Sunday, and that means Jules crafty snippets day I thought I`d share them with you.
First is this cutie one.

One of the girls I work with has become a Grandma for the first time and I thought, what better occasion to make a card for. It has been a strange week one way or another. As my daughters MiL died on Sunday night, Jacob, the baby the card is to celebrate, was born on Monday morning. In my experience that seems to happen alot.
Anyway, I digress. The card is very CaS.
A6 card base. I cut a panel slightly smaller and embossed the top half in the Swiss Dots EF.
The DP on the bottom half is a small snippet from Papermania`s Blueberry Hill Collection.
The Giraffe is a Digi from Pink Petticoat coloured with promarkers and cut out.
I`ve added a ribbon from my stash and a tag.
The sentiment is a joint one from Personal Impressions and Flourishes.

I have used snippets on this one too.
Tara made a bow like this on her St Lukes card which you can see HERE
I told her that I had tried to make one like that ages ago and it was so rubbish I never bothered again but, not to be outdone I gave it another go and I`m rather pleased with it. Since I was already in baby mode I used it on a card that I can give to those who don`t like cutsie.
A really simple 5x5 card base.
A snippet from Papermania Capsule collection matted on to some pale blue card then matted again onto some pale blue pearlescent card. ( all from the card bit box)
The sentiment is once again Personal Impressions and Flourishes Stamped in Memento Blue Danube.
I`ve added some pale blue gems to finish off.

And, as I have made 2 boy cards I just had to carry on and make a girl one too.
Same principle as the last but the pink DP is from a snippet from Papermania Blueberry Hill again.
Matted onto slightly deeper pink cards.
This time though I lightly stamped some flourishes from Papertrey`s Fancy Flourishes on to the DP and used them as a guide to place some pink gems.
I`ve gone a bit more overboard with the gems on this one because it is girlie afterall.

Well it might have only made a small dent in my snippets stash but I`ve had great fun using them.
I`m off work this week so look out for more snippet makes.

I keep trying to make snippet cards for Jules' challenge but it keeps going wrong! Still that's one way of using up snippets! Your cards are gorgeous as ever Lynne especially that giraffe one! Love the DP and the giraffe goes beautifully with it. Vx